Check out the chart below via Trulia. Equally harmful to the city's shrinking middle class is the staggering hike in median rents (goo.gl/L73VGS). According to 2015 data, 42% of Seattleites are renters.

NYC's demography is incredible not only quantitatively but also qualitatively in terms of the rich ethnic diversity of its neighborhoods. Only in one neighborhood of Elmhurst (in the Borough of Queens) there are up to 65 different ethnicities.
It's a paradox, to say the least, how that same Borough of Queens is also the birth place of Trump (Kew Gardens).
NYC is also becoming incredibly hard to live in with all the gentrification &....

Kenneth Goldsmith "Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century" review – a monumental hymn to the city
From sex and the subway to loneliness and gentrification, Goldsmith’s collage of many voices captures the complexity of New York life